Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Getting HSR on Track in California
SPUR
As California prepares to build North America's first 200-plus-miles-per-hour high-speed rail track, the voices of doubt and hesitation become louder and more strident. Skeptics attempt to drown out confidence in the project...

Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom.
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Atlanta: TSPLOST Vote In Savannah, Chatham Counties
Savannah Morning News
On Tuesday, residents will be asked to increase the total sales tax by an additional penny on the dollar to raise almost $611 million for county transportation projects. If approved, Chatham's sales tax will increase from 7 percent to 8 percent....

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Do We Really Want Cheaper BRT?
Washington Post
A report is making the rounds today that claims the Corridor Cities Transitway BRT line could be built for far less money if buses were routed in mixed traffic rather than on a transitway, if "temporary stops" were built instead of stations, and if park and rides were eliminated from the outer stations. ..

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Collapse of Auto Use Unprecedented
Business Insider
The greatest economics site in the world, FRED, has added vehicle miles data to its database. So we're going to have a lot of fun playing with this information. Here's the chart we made...

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Blogosphere: The Italian Job Metro Scene
The Source
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps…

It may be light, but in the meantime it's very slow. After hearing complaints from passengers that the Jerusalem light rail was as slow as a turtle, a young Jerusalem man decided to race the tram in order to test that theory. ... Read On

The last few weeks' posts on Old Urbanist made me think about what urban forms people prefer, and how it's affected by what they are familiar with. Rather than speculate on what people in my social circle prefer, I yield the stage to you... Read On

This post was originally written in Hebrew by Shalom Bogoslavsky, a social and political activist living in Jerusalem who blogs about Israeli politics at Put Down the Scissors and Let's Talk About It. The views expressed here are those of the author rather than my own; I translated it because it's important to showcase the politics of transit and there's a dearth of good English-language analysis of Israeli transportation... Read On

In Tel Aviv, people may move to the suburbs for a variety of reasons - the impossibility of finding parking in the city and the high housing prices are two popular complaints - but not school quality... Read On

A strong inter-dependence exists between the decision to develop land and the expected returns to be gained from that development. Current practice in UrbanSim modeling treats developer behavior and the emergence of land prices as independent processes... Read On